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INSECTS AFFECTING MAN AND ANIMALS 
F, C. Bishopp, in Charge 
H. Bennett Johnston, of the Wellcome Laboratories, Khartoum, 
eudan, visited Washington August 12. Part of his time was spent with 
F. C. Bishopp, discussing the work of the Bureau on cotton insects, es— 
pecially with reference to the character and type of injury to cotton 
produced by plant bugs, and discussing the situaticn in Khartoum regard- 
ing rarasites of the pink bollworn, 
G. W. Bruce aided in the handling and demonstration of the De- 
fartment Exhibit at the Illinois State Fair at Springfield, August 17 
to 24. 
During the greater part of August 0. G. Eabcock carried on a sur-— 
vey Of pests of livestock and poultry in western Texas, Colorado, and 
New Mexico. 
On August 9 F. C. Bishopp took Major P.-R. Hawley, M. C. U. S. 
Army, and Dr. Siribaed Bisuddhi, of Siam, to the Marine Station at Quan- 
tico to look over the operations there on-control of mosquitoes. Captain 
R. G. Heiner, M. C. U. S. Navy, very kindly arranged for a special demon- 
stration of airplane dusting of a swamp area. This treatment is carried 
out as a routine procedure in the antianorpheline work under way cn the 
Quantico reservation. Major Hawley is in charge of the sanitary work of 
the survey for a Nicaraguan canal, which the Army was recently authorized 
mo carry out. 
G. H. Bradley made a trip to Portland, Oreg., August 10 to 20, 
to conduct an inquiry into the mosquito situation along the Columbia 
River. 
D. G. Hall, of Coachella, Calif., spent the greater part of August 
at the field laboratory at Uvalde, Tex. While there he devoted some time 
to a study of the large collection of sarcophagids captured in the trap- 
ping experiments which E. W. Laake and E. C. Cushing are carrying on in 
Menard County, Tex. 
INSECT PEST SURVEY 
J. A. Hyslop, in Charge 
On Tuesday, August 6, Dr. Marlatt gave a 15-minute talk over 
“he radio entitled "Insect War." During the last week in July and early 
in August the followig entomological subjects were treated in connection 
with the radio program listed under "Farm and Garden Calendar": Fleas, 
the stable fly or biting house fly, the corn ear worm as a pest of cotton, 
the Mexican bean beetle, mosquitoes, and aphids on turnips, kale, and 
cabbage. 
